Medial Mandibulotomies: Is there sufficient space in the midline to allow a mandibulotomy without compromising the dentition?

Journal of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 42, Issue MAY, 2013, Pages

  Shinghal, Tulika ^a   Bissada, Eric ^a   Chan, Hon Biu ^b   Wood, Robert E ^c   Atenafu, Eshetu G ^c   Brown, Dale H ^a   Gilbert, Ralph W ^a   Gullane, Patrick J ^a   Irish, Jonathan C ^a   Waldron, John ^b   Goldstein, David P ^a  

^a PRINCESS MARGARET HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complications; Dental; Mandibulotomy; Media; Median; Paramedian

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DENTAL IMPINGEMENT; DENTAL SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCISOR; INTENSITY MODULATED RADIATION THERAPY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MANDIBULOTOMY; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MIDDLE AGED; ORAL SURGERY; PERIODONTAL DISEASE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERTIARY CARE CENTER; TONGUE CANCER; TONSIL CANCER; TOOTH DISEASE; AGED; BONE NECROSIS; DENTITION; MANDIBLE; PANORAMIC RADIOGRAPHY; RADIATION DOSE; RADIOGRAPHY; TONGUE TUMOR; TONSIL TUMOR;

AGED; DENTITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MANDIBLE; MIDDLE AGED; ORAL SURGICAL PROCEDURES; OSTEORADIONECROSIS; RADIOGRAPHY, PANORAMIC; RADIOTHERAPY DOSAGE; RADIOTHERAPY, INTENSITY-MODULATED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TONGUE NEOPLASMS; TONSILLAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 84896983451     PISSN: 19160216     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1916-0216-42-32     Document Type: Article

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